I'm always happy to help! Especially someone who's creating some wonderful content I enjoy consuming.
For motivation on embeds, your site supporting oEmbed would allow others to more easily and prettily embed your content, say from your podcast on their site.
Since most people may not take the time and effort to properly credit you or your work, or even attempt to make their re-post of your work look nice, you can have some control of the repost yourself by custom creating embeds, thus if one were to put the URL to one of your podcast posts into their own website it would display the way you designed it rather than whatever poor result they may come up with themselves. So instead of me needing to view the source of your web page and cut and paste the URL for your audio and/or other portions (like the photo and description perhaps), I could just cut and paste the URL and get something preformatted that just "works".
It's somewhat like Twitter Cards (https:/
If you want to try some examples of other sites, there's a list and more details at https:/
Jeremy, this seemed a little long for Loqi to handle, and seemed worth keeping for later, so my response is below:
I understand your situation and have been following some of the discussion about content ownership and reposting. I'm all about giving credit where it's due, and bend over backwards (as far as I'm technically able) to do so. (Wait until you see some of the chicanery I'm trying to pull of for simple bookmark posts...)
It's for that reason that I provided a direct link to the podcast itself in the post as well as a blockquote synopsis in an effort to advertise on your show's behalf. Embedding the mp3 directly on my page was done as a means of helping people easily "sample" the podcast to get them hooked, in which case they would need to subscribe directly to the source. (I also did it to make it easier for me to relisten to it later if I like.) I'm still trying to get Twitter Player Cards to work properly so that could be an additional avenue for sampling on POSSE copies.
Additionally, by embedding the mp3 (I could have scraped it and then hosted it myself, but really, what's the point of that? unless I really wanted to steal it and run advertising against it for myself), your hosting server gets pinged for the "listen" or for any potential downloads because it's being served directly from your site (and not mine), which presumably most podcasters are tracking for advertising purposes. (YouTube and other video hosters do this for embedded videos.)
What I did was not much different than what Huffduffer is doing in bookmarking audio from your podcast on its site. Huffduffer isn't hosting a separate audio file itself, it's hosting a pointer to your file on its site and also syndicating it via RSS and/or Apple iTunes to others who will ultimately stream it or download it directly from your server. In fact, given this, I'm just acting like a mini-Apple iTunes without as much functionality, but I'm only advertising your podcast and not hundreds of thousands of others.
If you did have sponsors, you would presumably also give them airtime in your podcast which would then be heard as well, and tracked by your own server as a stream start or download. I suspect if you had visual advertising on your site, I could/might also embed that so you get a ping for the page load on my site as well. :)
If you're not aware or need it for clients, WordPress gives you the ability to customize your site's ability to provide oEmbeds, so with/for advertisers, you could add text, media, and even a visual advertisement to the pages for your audio podcasts. Other WordPress sites (or sites that consume oEmbed data) that include your URL in their pages then re-render it as a "player card" which presumably pings your server with a "hit" thus giving you credit for the work. Here's an example of an oEmbed for another WordPress site at the top of this post: http:/
Perhaps I'm mistaken about the process, and you may be far more knowledgeable than I given your experience in the space, but I'm pretty sure that by embedding and not copying and hosting it myself, you should be able to garner the lion's share of the credit while I'm just serving as free advertising on your behalf.
As an alternate example, things are somewhat different in Marty's case of creating a separate piece of audio and copying and embedding it into his podcast as aaronpk's music didn't register a ping of any sort (other than possibly a webmention which only happened once), so aaronpk couldn't have monetized his audio the way you could have with a sponsored podcast.
@eatpodcast @jimpick @realkimhansen @abrams @Feedly Jeremy, I agree with you wholeheartedly that SoundCloud is a dreadful option overall--apologies if I gave the impression otherwise. Given it's cost and the fact that it's what I would call a super-silo make it a non-starter unless you're looking for a very sort term solution or if you're a mega-media company and have the money to burn to try to reach another tiny sliver of audience you didn't have before.
Sadly, given their position in the space, companies like Apple, SoundCloud, and perhaps a few others haven't continued building out and innovating. (Marco Arment, who you mentioned in this particular podcast, recently had an episode on being "Sherlocked" that touches on the economics of perhaps why they haven't gone the extra mile http:/
We also need a better/easier solution for the average Jane who wants to create a simple podcast without spending two weeks doing a mini-startup to set it all up and get it going with the widest distribution possible.
I'm honestly puzzled that YouTube doesn't get into the space as they've already got a huge piece of the puzzle built. Just provide the ability to strip out an .mp3 file from a video (there's a huffduffer bookmarklet that allows this: http:/
I do appreciate larger companies like This American Life doing things like Shortcut [https:/
As an aside, I've just noticed at http:/
@realkimhansen @kevinmarks Audio should really be more easily bookmarkable by timecode
@realkimhansen @kevinmarks @replyall I just did my year end audio clean out & removed >50GB of audio data from >1 system last week.
@realkimhansen @kevinmarks @replyall Site independent playlists in the audio world should really be standard by now. How have we really not improved in 10 years? @DaveWiner must be right: https:/
@rhiaro @csarven I archived a lot of material from the #dtmh2016 conference in Oct here: http:/
@EllieMackin I've also seen students use Livescribe pens to not only capture notes but linked audio for review and sharing w/ absentees.
The Infinite Drum Machine - A.I. Experiments https:/
#music #audio #machinelearning #ai #drums
BTW @adactio built the greatest audio webapp of all time https:/
@TMWestervelt If you want, I think I may have gotten the audio from that section at http:/
Notes, Audio files, & Twitter Archive from Day 1 of #DtMH2016 http:/
@sillygwailo Okay, I thought you might know some trick I didn't! That line is more about reading and the use of timeshifting there is probably too subtle. Timeshifting is usually more frequently applied to live video/audio In particular, I've been thinking a lot about reading; I was apparently capturing the zeitgeist when I coincidentally posted this yesterday: http:/
A lovely little experiment in visual pedagogy in mathematics! We could certainly use more of these types of simple "explorations" particularly for younger math students who may not always be good at visualizing material. These seem reminiscent to me of Wilson Rugh's <a href="http://pages.jh.edu/~signals/">java applets</a> for digital signal processing years ago.
Some of this pedagogy argument about slides likely fits better into the area of the flipped classroom versus non-flipped. Though slides may be great (particularly if students have copies of them beforehand to take notes on as is often done commercially by many biology textbooks which have 2-4 slides down the left side of the page and note space on the right hand side) for mathematics I much prefer having notes in <a href="http://refer.livescribe.com/a/clk/2G3Md">Livescribe</a> .pdf format with embedded audio. This allows a student to not only relisten to the entire lecture, where often a lot of complicated material (especially in higher level abstract courses) is said very quickly and isn't able to be written down even by some of the best transcriptionists with shorthand (and how many students know this anymore?), but they can skip around to parts they need more work on. As an example, download this <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/7g4rekbuzzr8nfz/Lie%20Groups-Lecture%203.pdf?dl=0">.pdf file from a Lie Groups lecture</a> and open it up in the most recent version of Adobe Reader to be able to see the visual and audio functionality.
The particular value often comes in seeing problems worked out in full detail with discussion, which some students need much more of than others. One of my favorite lecture experiences almost a decade ago was hearing an audible gasp from the classroom of undergraduates when Sol Golomb (USC) stopped in the middle of a complicated lecture on combinatorics and worked out a 4th grade simple long division problem on the board to get a final solution. Half the class had pulled out a calculator to get the answer and he'd finished before most of them had the first number input. The class learned more in that one minute of example than most did the entire lecture. Most of the best math is done in the "exploration" and practice than in a stripped down lecture as is highlighted in Ben Orlin's recent post: <a href="https://mathwithbaddrawings.com/2016/05/04/the-essence-of-mathematics-in-one-beatles-song/">The Essence of Mathematics</a>. While it's always lovely seeing theoretical mathematics as if it seemingly sprang fully formed from the head of Zeus, many students should see how the proverbial sausage (or laws) are actually made, especially at an earlier age.